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Trustees Ronald J. Naples, Chairman Sean T. Buffington, President George A. Beach '58 Roger L. Bomgardner Ira Brind Ronald L. Caplan Jill R. Felix Colton Joseph E Coradino Paul Curci Eleanor L. Davis Deanna DeCherney '66 Mark Donnolo '85 Brian Effron Michael C. Eorman Wilharn R. Cast '68 Mehssa Heller Richard P. Jaffe, Esq. Scott M. Jenkins Gail Kass Dr. Russel E. Kaufman Al Paul Lefton, Jr. Elaine C. Levitt Sueyun Pyo Locks Karen Lotman Jeffrey A. Lutsky Seymour G. Mandell Dr. Noel Mayo '66 Thomas M. Miles '75 Francis J. Mirabello, Esq. Adolf A. Paier Lawrence S. Reichlin '57 Jerry J. Siano Judith F. Terra James P. Vesey Fiarriet G. Weiss William Wilson Albert E. Wolf Life Trustees Dorrance H. Fiamilton, Chairman Emerita Sam S. McKeel Trustees Emeriti Mary Louise Beitzel '51 Irvin J. Borowsky Anne F. Elder Sondra Myers The University of the Arts 133''° COMMENCEMENT si T V Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 19,2011 Commencement Ceremony (lllii "'^ ""'•Oct, .» Thursday, May 19,2011 Processional 10:00 a.m. Ceremony 10:30 a.m. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets Processional* "Pomp and Circumstance" The University of the Arts Big Band Grand Marshal Jack DeWitt, Professor, Liberal Arts Marshals of Students David Howey, Associate Professor, Theater Arts Phyllis Purves-Smith, Associate Professor, Illustration Christa DiMarco, Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts Neil Kleinman, Professor, Multimedia and Communication Senior Fellow, the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy Graduating Class Marshals of the Faculty Meghan DeLuca, Assistant Dean, Division of Liberal Arts Krishna Dunston, Assistant Dean, College of Performing Arts Jeffrey Ryder, Deputy Dean, College of Media and Communication Adrienne Stalek, Deputy Dean, College of Art and Design University Faculty President's Council Board of Trustees Platform Party Ceremony "America the Beautiful' Graduating Vocal Performance Majors '\ \ fiL J vT Welcome JX' ^s^ ,. Sean T Buffington, President \ ^ VV K^ e/ h' '^ Valedictory Speaker \X *^ _\ ^ ^ Y«^ Ashleigh Whitworth v '• J\ A ^ . A Modern Dance '11 \ /^ Ov" v Q)" ^ V /\\ \ ^ Student Awards vJ^. Vv^ ^^(^^\4CdLrnj„, ,, / ^^>, -T-L '/'^f'^cS-// Sean T Buffington, President ^^xCV^ President's Awards ^ /L "T , if^'^Q^r ' Medals for Academic Achievement ' A^ )^yf Faculty Awards Kirk E. Pillow, Provost The Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award John M. Baker, Associate Professor, Liberal Arts The Richard C. von Hess Faculty Prize Joseph L. Girandola, Assistant Professor, MFA/CPS Mary Louise Beitzel Award for Distinguished Teaching Kim Y. Bears-Bailey, Associate Professor, Dance The President's Distinguished Teaching Award Lowell Boston, Adjunct Associate Professor, Media Arts Performance Transfusion Ensemble Greetings from Alumni Council Lisa Oster '99 Silver Star Outstanding Alumni Awards Presented by Marc Dicciani Director, School of Music Awarded to Evan Solot '67, MM '75 Presented by Lori Spencer Associate Professor, Fine Arts Awarded to Leonard Lehrer '56 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees Presented by Wendy Weinberg Associate Professor, Media Arts Awarded to Louis J. Massiah Presented by Neil Kleinman Professor, Multimedia and Communication Senior Fellow, the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy Awarded to Bill Moggridge Commencement Address Bill Moggridge Conferral of Degrees and Other Academic Attainments Presentation of Diplomas Sean T. Buffington, President Kirk E. Pillow, Provost Ronald J. Naples, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Closing Remarks Sean T. Buffington, President Recessional"" A16 Brasil * Audience will rise I""/ Past Silver Star Alumni Award Recipients 1955 1974 1994 Tina Leser Barry Wilke Ruth E. Fine Irving Penn Eugene Feldman Florence Quivar 1956 1975 1995 Raymond Ballinger Richard Reinhardt John E. Davis Henry Pitz Deborah Willis 1976 1957 Olaf Skoogfors 1996 Wharton Esherick Tom Butter Charles Sheeler 1977 Janine Cappello Elaine Kurtz 1958 1997 Earl Milhette 1978 Edd Kalehoff Sol Mednick Albert Gold Kathy Rose 1959 1979 1998 Frances Lichten Charles Santore Janice & Stanley Warren Blair Berenstain 1980 William R. McCann 1960 Evelyn Copelman John Williams Brown 1999 Marguerite Gaudin 1981 Irene Bedard Dana P. Vaughn Marguerite Walter Johnny Irizarry 1961 1982 2000 Irene Laverty Philip Eitzen C. Samuel Micklus Boris Drucker Brian T. Vernon 1983 1962 Thomas F. Schutte 2001 Mildred Jantzen Margaret Garwood 1984 Myra Mimlitsch-Gray 1963 Kevan Moss Virginia Gifford 2002 1985 Diane Monroe 1964 Jacob Landau Eileen Neff Al Bendiner Jerome Kaplan 1986 2003 Wesley W. Emmons Jennifer Childs 1965 Richard Kidney Joseph Kramer 1987 Theodore Miller Robert Capanna 2004 Morris Lomden Steve & Peggy Zablotny Donald Chittum Bernard Glassman Joseph Musso 1988 1966 William G. Krebs 2005 Rudolph Freund Barbara Silverstein Riitta Vainio Susan B. Welchman 1967 1989 Morris Berd Stephen Albert 2006 Kenneth Carbone KaDee Strickland 1968 Leslie Smolan Don Moyer Arnold Roth 1990 2007 1969 Marjorie Levy Daniel Owen Dailey William Stephens Vincent J. Trombetta 1991 1970 Lydia Artymiw 2008 George Krause Ed Colker Charles Long Jackson Grace Gay 1971 1992 Sidney Goodman Jerry Pinkney 2009 Pearl B. Schaeffer Richard Amsel 1972 Stephen and Paul Keene, Jr. 1993 Timothy Quay Stanley Clarke 1973 Joseph Dante 2010 Noel Mayo Renee Jaworski Alphonse Mattia Silver Star Outstanding Alumni Award Recipients Evan Solot The work of composer Evan Solot, a University of the Arts professor and Composition department chair, has earned accolades and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the American Composers Forum, to name just a few. A Fulbright Scholar, he composes for orchestras, jazz groups, pop recordings, dance, theater, film and commercials, collaborating with poet Sonia Sanchez, playwright Ntosake Shange, Stevie Wonder, and University alumni including bassist Stanley Clarke '71 (Bass) and choreographer Judith Jamison '64 (Dance). His music has been performed by leading jazz and pop performers including Randy and Michael Brecker, Kurt Filing, Mel Torme and Ben Vereen. A former trumpet player, Solot toured with Bette Midler, Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra and Lou Rawls, and served as lead trumpet in more than 50 Broadway shows. Fiis music underscores the award-winning documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" and is part of Naxos Records' American Essentials series with the Chestnut Brass. He also orchestrated the new NBC Nightly News Theme. Solot earned B.M., and M.M. degrees from the Philadelphia Musical Academy, now the University of the Arts. Leonard Lehrer Leonard Lehrer is an award-winning painter and printmaker. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and many other institutions. Lehrer was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking from the Southern Graphics Council International in 2009. A Fulbright Scholar, Lehrer received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) in 1956 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. He served as co-director of the Foundation Program at PCA. Lehrer has also led the schools or departments of art at the University of New Mexico, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Arizona State University, and New York University; he served as dean and associate provost at Columbia College Chicago; and he is currently a visiting professor and director of the Printmaking Convergence Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Lehrer is a Founding Trustee of the International Print Center New York, and was a member of the original College Art Association Committee charged with developing national guidelines for the MFA and the BFA degrees. ."".• Past Honorary Degree Recipients 1961 1980 1995 Harold Taylor Helen Frankenthaler Joel N. Bloom Aurelius Renzetti Rudolf Nureyev Philip Glass 1962 1981 1996 Benton Spruance H. Ober Hess Robert M. Greenberg Leo Steinberg Marjorie Samoff 1963 Walter Terry Karl Sherman 1997 1982 Robert Oldenburg 1964 Placido Domingo Edward G. Rendell Saul Bass Jack Lenor Larsen Grover Washington, Jr. Victor D'Amico Harvey K. Littleton 1998 1965 1983 Richard S. Gurin Eugene Grigsby George Crumb Peter Nero Edward Hopper Alwin Nikolais Erwin Panofsky Henry Holmes Smith 1999 Mrs. Malcom Lloyd Arthur Mitchell 1984 Arnold Newman 1966 Joseph Castaldo Edwin Dickinson Alice Neal 2000 Lily Yeh 1967 1985 Edmund Bacon Andrew Heiskell 2001 Paul Froelaich Denise Scott Brown Helen W. Drutt English Susanne Langer Robert Venturi Jane Golden 1968 1986 2002 Thomas Wilfred Roger L. Stevens Walter E. Dallas Louise Nevelson Judith Jamison Lessing J. Rosenwald Richard Reinhardt 2003 Mildred Constantine 1969 1987 Robert A. Moog R. Sturgis Ingersoll Laurie Anderson Edward R. Tufte Howard Mitchell J. Carter Brown Joseph Papp 2004 1970 Leilani Lattin Duke Berthe von Moschzisker 1988 Roberto Memmo Dorrance H. Hamilton 1971 Armin Hofmann 2005 Alexey Brodovich Sam S. McKeel Rexford T. Cardwell, Jr. (posthumously accepted by John W. Merriam Kal Solomon Rudman Irving Penn) Thomas M. Messex Dominick Peter Stuccio Howard A. Wolf Howard A. Wolf 2006 1972 1989 William M. Hurt G. Robert LeRicolais Martin Friedman John Szarkowski Maurice Sendak 2007 Meredith Monk Rosalyn Drexler 1973 Anais Nin 1990 2008 Katharine Dunham Edna Andrade 1974 Lukas Foss Ira Brind Herbert Bayer Nam June Paik Stanley Clarke Pater DeGelleke Senator Claiborne Pell Miguel Angel Corzo 1975 1991 2009 Milton Glaser Ivan Chermayeff